Raul Julia Quotes (18 Quotes)

You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

I would smoke a cigar once in a while, but mostly cigarettes. I was lucky. I just stopped smoking cigarettes and went back to cigars.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.

Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

You know that for the first time in history, we have the means, the knowledge, the agricultural know-how and the economic resources to end hunger.

A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

Thank God for the theater.

I was even offered some things that I didn't really feel were right for me for a lot of money, more money than I was making in the theater.